Dish Decorated with Boys and ‘Ruyi’ Scepters
1735-1794
Physical Qualities
Jade, 2 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 6 11/16 in. (6 x 19.1 x 17 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.347
One boy holds a 'ruyi' scepter, the other a handful of leaves surrounding a small flower; between them, on opposite sides of the vessel are crossed 'ruyi' scepters.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "90 Years of Asian Accessions: 1920-1940," (Lockwood de Forest, Julius Levy, Francis Burns Harvey, Mary Frick Jacobs, William H. Whitridge), July 2004-February 2005.
